EACC Reveals 7 Ways County Staffers Steal Funds Through Payroll Fraud After Raiding County Headquarters
EACC Reveals 7 Ways County Staffers Steal Funds Through Payroll Fraud After Raiding Nandi County Headquarters over illegal payments to ghost workers and other payroll irregularities.
According to EACC Spokesperson Eric Ngumbi, most counties struggling with increasing wage bills were as a result of Governors capturing some departments such as County Public Service Boards to control employment.
He underscored that MCAs, on the other hand, have neglected their accountability roles and instead are engaging in selfish deeds of seeking jobs for their supporters, family members and relatived.
1. Ghost workers. These are non-existent employees who exist only on paper and do not do anything for the county governments but earn salaries out of which they retain a small percentage and hand over the balance to their superiors.
2. Over-employment: The scheme involves contracting staff more than is needed, especially in the lower cadre driven by nepotism, favouritism, and the need to reward political cronies. As a result, huge amounts of public funds are used in the payment of salaries at the expense of development and service delivery.
3. Employment or promotion of officials on the basis of forged academic certificates: EACC says some counties, with the help of senior county officials, treat employment as a means for rewarding political supporters, relatives, and associates.
4. Retaining in the payroll employees who have retired or exited the counties.
5. Multiple employment- employees holding more than one job in separate counties or institutions.
6. Employment of unqualified persons.
7. Placing some employees in higher grades to earn beyond their grades.
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